I knew someone who had a lovely dun paint named bananas. It fit horse was nuts. We have some odd ones admittedly a mare named Bert but thats after a family friend who was roberta aka bert.
I worked with a little pony named sweet and low. Great horse, gelding and a little kids horse. So, when little boys were riding him for the week he was "spike" or one week a little kid renamed him wild thing (he was a wonderful bomb proof horse).
The worse name I have ever come across was on a racehorse.
His sire was Sound Track and the dam Creepy Crawly - taking the parental names guess what the foal was called?
Although it was a ghastly name he was well named!
Think of what a sound track was/is and then a creepy crawly.
I know a gelding named "Knotty". Problem is, when people hear it said, they think it's "Naughty". And he is!
I'm with you for the most part. I've always thought it would be disturbing to hear my name (or a friend's name) used for an animal. Funny thing is, both my dogs and my horse have human names (they were all named when I got them). The dogs are alright, but the horse has the same name as three of my friends. It is a little weird, but at the same time, I wouldn't change Grace's name!
My horse's name is Baby Girl. *shiver* And my other is... Miss Kitty.
I named neither.
But the best/worst horse name ever... I was at a show once. A friend was riding a fat, old Percheron bloodmare everyone just called "Mama." So my friend and Mama enter the show ring, and the announcer calls out, "And here's Dave Blackburn riding Your Mom."
I rarely ever name a horse until something falls into place, stable names that is.
Registering a racehorse is never easy as you cannot call it with a name already used or after a long dead famous horse.
I have had ponies named with human names, Tommy, Fred, Molly, Susan, Ben and so on. They all had either unpronounceable Welsh names or something that was not really 'them'.
One dun Welsh pony was Apple Dumpling which suited him well. I find some of the QH full names absolutely ridiculous
A nice name for a pony, actually.
These are the ones I know...
A mare, named Deformation.
A sire in my gelding's line, named Furgon.
A stud, named Donor
Demagogue and Persona make me cringe, too.
Report and Vandal also are no names I'd give to a foal.
I know of horses that were originally named BJ, Hummer, and...well...I think I'll probably end up getting banned if I write the next one and some kid looks it up...:shock:
foxhunter.. Yes Rudolph Valentino was,, and its a dumb horse name. also there is a well bred and known horse named blue valentine, I have owned horses of this lineage and Valentine was Not in their name.
I knew a packer who lived in colorado and called all his mules John. His logic was "I don't want to name something I might have to eat". I also know a guy who has 8 teams of belgians all named Tom and Jerry. I always found it funny to go to the miniature horse farms where the horse is named something like "royal oaks famously known and shown" and go to draft barns where the horses are named "bud" or "tom".
My mare is registered as Pe Pe Twistie, and I think that's pretty bad. My neighbor named her donkeys Zarita Octavia and Pedro Alpaca. I thought those were more funny than terrible. To Tuf to Butcher is still the worst I think, but I guess it's more fitting for a stock horse maybe? They're some tough critters.
My QH has a few "uhh...." names in his pedigree. :lol:
His dam was Impressive Puddin, her dam was Shaky Puddin. Cherry Punkin on his sire's side.
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